Ultra-Wide Video Camera Can Capture Entire Sporting Event At Once

Forget letterbox, cinematic or ultra-wide. Those resolutions all fall short of the TV you'd need to display the output from an eye-stretching prototype video camera from Panasonic.

The electronic giant is using a combination of four high-definition lenses to capture a 160-degree field of vision. The picture quality produced is at 720p, and the cameras move simultaneously to pan and tilt.

TVs used to have an aspect ratio of 4:3; then along came the wider 16:9. This camera would up the ante to 64:9

To put that into perspective, LG, Philips and Vizio’s top-of-the line ultra-wide displays offer a 21:9 ratio. Read more...